Click here to read or make comments on this topic »
AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.
As part of its proactive approach to solve the outstanding backlog of unsolved land disputes in the districts under its jurisdiction, Kigali City Council (KCC) on Wednesday publicly quizzed authorities of Kicukiro District on several cases it had failed to solve.
Acrimony and name calling marred a public hearing in Nakuru by the Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission.
A businessman dug out a case that was first filed in court by his father about four decades ago, and succeeded where the old man, now dead, failed. And as, from his determination, Mr Raphael Murigi may be celebrating his success, four other families are crying foul and do not know whom to turn to for help.
A 79 year old widow has been given a month to vacate her dairy farm and home of 50 years, or face a jail term, after she was convicted earlier this year for failing to vacate her farm.
A palatial home is poised to set new records for the most valuable property ever sold in the suburb of ambassadors and bishops.
The woman councillor for Koch Goma Sub-county in Amuru District, Ms Margaret Ayugi Odong, was reportedly hacked on the head yesterday by her neighbour, Mr Vincent Onono in a land boundary row.
The Gbekebor Progressive Forum in Delta State has charged the state government and Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC0 not to have any land dealings with the people of Obotebe in Burutu Local Government Area of the state.
The failure by the leadership of Mulago Referral Hospital to speed up the acquisition of a land title has given a leeway to encroachers to people to encroach on the land.
Civil servants who handed Gasabo District over Frw 330 million francs of their own money on the promise that the district would give them plots of land to build houses on are preparing to file a lawsuit against Gasabo because they have not received a single plot.
The dust has settled in Kanampiu, Laikipia North District, six weeks after the killing of 35 people in a clash between Pokot raiders and Samburu herdsmen.
Encroachers have taken over at least 500 hectares of wetlands in Masaka District, destroying the fragile eco-system in the area.
The government is in the final stages of leasing out small lakes to local fish farmers, the Minister of Agriculture has said.
Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, on Tuesday reiterated government's commitment to return parcels of land acquired but not utilised for public purposes to their owners.
THE Department of Human Settlements plans to allocate more than R12bn or more than 90% of its budget this financial year to provincial governments to build houses.
The government has conceded defeat in its ambitious land-redistribution programme, and is now looking to achieve its goals by about 2025 instead of the planned 2014 because of lack of finance made worse by the recession.
Internally displaced families who were staying near Lake Ol Bolosat have been given land in Subukia.
Eastern province leaders came out in their numbers to give their views on boundary review.
Owning idle land anywhere in Kenya will soon be very expensive if new rules governing land use are adopted.
It has been disclosed in Monrovia from research work that forced evictions is a violation of the basic human rights of people. The observation that forced eviction is derived from a one-day stakeholder meeting aimed at identifying causes of forced evictions. The meeting ended last Friday at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Paynesville.
The Real Estate Institute of Botswana (REIB) elected Outule Bale as the new Chairman of its council during its annual general meeting that was held at the University of Botswana (UB) recently.
A member of the Lagos House of Assembly, Mr. Ipoola Omisore, has decried the activities of land speculators who claim to be indigenes of the state and intimidate landed property owners.
GEOMATIC Engineering Solutions, a private engineering company, has partnered with Post Bank Uganda to assist residents of Busoga to acquire freehold titles for their land.
With exactly a week to go before a deadline for those settled in a section of the Mau Forest complex expires, thousands of anxious settlers are grappling with the inevitability of eviction. A two-pronged plan in the past week has cleared any doubts on the government's determination to get the settlers out and start rehabilitation work.
THE North Gauteng High Court has declared large portions of a important land-reform law unconstitutional, rendering it unworkable in its present form.
At least six farm workers are being held at Chinhoyi police station on charges of inciting public violence, in the aftermath of attacks at the hands of land invaders on a farm.
Active Discussions: Land Issues